Re: Debian 5 -- "data" is plural.

[Ken Heard <kenslists@teksavvy.com>]

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On 2014-05-19 16:22, Mike McGinn wrote:

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> I would suggest identifying an backing up the scientific data. I
> would suggest putting a backuo program in place and auditing the
> backups to make sure that all the scientific data is backed up.
> Only then would I think about upgrading.

Please note everybody that the word "data" is plural.  The beginning
of the last line quoted above should consequently read "all the
scientific data *are* backed up."  Other posts in this thread make the
same error.  The singular of data is datum.

Other words in the same family are: medium -> media, criterion ->
criteria, bacterium -> bacteria.  There are several others.

Regards, Ken Heard

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